Texas court: Compensate man wrongly convicted in cop s death
by Juan A. Lozano, The Associated Press
Posted Dec 18, 2020 2:35 pm EDT
Last Updated Dec 18, 2020 at 2:44 pm EDT
HOUSTON A state agency shouldn’t have denied compensation to a man who was wrongfully imprisoned including for nearly a decade on death row for the fatal shooting of a Houston police officer, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday.
After a judge signed an order in May 2019 declaring Alfred Dewayne Brown innocent in the April 2003 slaying of Officer Charles Clark during a robbery of a check-cashing store, Brown was eligible for nearly $2 million in compensation under state law. He spent more than 12 years in prison.
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